
1958 (1958)
Episodes: 12
Star Cast:
Episodes List

Ep.1 The Winter Sky
Air Date: 1958-01-08
Patrick Moore shows you the wonders of the winter sky during the coming month.

Ep.2 Radio Astronomy
Air Date: 1958-02-05
Patrick Moore discusses with Dr. Roger Jennison of Jodrell Bank how radio astronomy is increasing our knowledge of the Universe.

Ep.3 The Plough
Air Date: 1958-03-05
Patrick Moore discusses the most famous of all the constellations.

Ep.4 Penumbral Eclipse
Air Date: 1958-04-02
Patrick Moore talks about the forthcoming penumbral eclipse of the Moon, and Mercury the nearest planet to the Sun.

Ep.5 The Moon
Air Date: 1958-04-30
Tonight Patrick Moore is at the Hampstead Observatory. If weather conditions are suitable television cameras will bring live pictures of the moon's surface.

Ep.6 Jupiter
Air Date: 1958-05-28
Patrick Moore talks about the largest planet, its family of moons, and its mysterious changing red spot.

Ep.7 Dwarf and Giant Stars
Air Date: 1958-06-20
Patrick Moore talks about the life history of a star.

Ep.8 Moon Missions
Air Date: 1958-07-23
Patrick Moore explains what it would mean to astronomers if a successful attempt were made to reach the moon.

Ep.9 Telescopes
Air Date: 1958-08-20
Patrick Moore talks about old and new telescopes with A. H. Degenhardt, and shows some of the things which the new telescopes can reveal-for instance, about the Andromeda Galaxy, whose light takes nearly two million years to reach us.

Ep.10 The Universe
Air Date: 1958-09-17
Patrick Moore talks to America's foremost astronomer, Dr. Harlow Shapley, about his theories on the size and scale of the universe.

Ep.11 Mars
Air Date: 1958-11-17
Mars is better seen now than it will be for the next ten years.

Ep.12 The Craters on the Moon
Air Date: 1958-12-15
Patrick Moore and Dr. Gilbert Fielder discuss the recent report by a Russian astronomer of an eruption on the moon, and what it reveals about the moon's origin and present state.